As a young woman, Lindy Ralph always loved writing, but got sidetracked. Training as a dental nurse and working across varied jobs in her 20s, including as a stage manager, she found herself pregnant with her son at 30 and became a single mother. The dental nursing put food on the table during this time but, after some years, she realised she was drawn to working in a creative field again.
Ralph decided it was time to prioritise her own life again and ‘do what I really wanted to do’ – which was learn how to make money from writing – ‘but I just didn’t know how,’ she says. First she enrolled in a Bachelor of Creative Arts at La Trobe University in Bendigo, but when she lost her tour business during COVID in 2020, she decided to move back to Melbourne with her partner.
